Time: 34:33
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front
01. Let's Face The Music And Dance (3:34)
02. Willow Weep For Me (4:16)
03. I Thought About You (3:58)
04. How Deep Is the Ocean (3:32)
05. At Sundown (3:46)
06. 'Tis Autumn (4:01)
07. That Old Black Magic (3:06)
08. On The Sunny Side Of The Street (2:33)
09. Here's To Life (5:45)
My favorites on this album are simply put, all of them. Let's Face The Music and Dance for the harmonies, the upbeat pace, the fun. Willow Weep For Me for the fact that my father used to play it when I was a kid, for all of us kids, as a nighty night song, and for how Rodney Burge just plays the heck out of it and thereby makes me really sing it. Doug McKeehan did many of these arrangements, well, all right, six of the nine songs here, including I Thought About You which always makes me think about trains and YOU who I had to leave, all over again. How Deep Is The Ocean is deeply satisfying to sing. Thank you, Irving Berlin, for giving all of us such a great song in which to express deep love, and thank you, Doug for your great accompaniment and arrangement here. At Sundown was first made known to me by the great radio singer Ruth Etting. I am so grateful to Walter Donaldson for writing a song with such stunning lyrics and happy melody. 'Tis Autumn by Henry Nemo- 'tis a great song, all about the trees and the birds and love, again, who would have guessed. That Old Black Magic by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen is treated in a fresh way here by Doug McKeehan, moving from a kind of spooky minor key into a spin, and I am loving that spin I am in. On The Sunny Side of the Street is hip hop happy. Here's To Life, first sung by the great Shirley Horn, is my favorite song to sing for girlfriends, i.e., for Ladies Who Lunch, and we all know who we are! Another song with a story, and what else is a singer, but a person who puts stories to song. I hope you love these songs and my fabulous musicians as much as I do. Love and Happiness to You! Laura Dorais
Here's To Life